Tag Archives: trial and error
Persecution and the Art of Writing
Persecution and the Art of Writing That’s the catchy title of a book published in the 1950’s by a man named Leo Strauss – initially derided, later enormously influential. Outside philosophy and political theory, Strauss’s name is not generally … Continue reading →
Posted in action, art, art of living, books, contradictions, courtship, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, feminism, history of ideas, literature, love, philosophy, political, politics, politics of ideas, public facade, public intellectual, reading, relationships, roles, romantic love, social construction, social conventions, status, status of women, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, twentieth century, twenty-first century, work, writing, Zeitgeist
|
Tagged candor, candor in courtship, conspiracy theory, coquetry, courtship, dialectic, diplomacy, emigre philosophers, emigres, esotericism, Eugenics, exoteric writing, gauging the audience, hidden doctrine, hidden views, history of ideas, integrity, intellectual integrity, intellectuals, Leo Strauss’s Persecution and the Art of Writing, oral teaching, Palestinian student, people pleasing, philosophic training, philosophy, Plato's Phaedrus, Plato's Republic, political realism, political science, political theory, public intellectuals, rhetoric, saying the right thing, secret doctrine, social blunders, social intelligence, speech and silence, state managed reproduction, straight shooting, tact, the ideal state, The Woman Question, Thought Crimes, trial and error, truth-seekers, women in philosophy, writing in code
|
2 Comments
Betrayal
Betrayal Jerry and I have been attending the American Academy of Religion (AAR) meetings in Boston this weekend. That’s the venue at which Jerry continues his guiding activities in the subfield of “Theology Without Walls,” which he introduced at the … Continue reading →
Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, academe, action, alienation, American politics, anthropology, art, art of living, atheism, autonomy, beauty, Bible, Biblical God, bureaucracy, Christianity, cities, class, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, courtship, cults, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, freedom, friendship, gender balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, guilt and innocence, health, Hegel, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history, history of ideas, id, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, immortality, institutional power, Jews, journalism, Judaism, law, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, male power, martyrdom, masculinity, memoir, memory, Messianic Age, mind control, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, mysticism, non-violence, ontology, oppression, pacifism, past and future, peace, philosophy, poetry, political, political movements, politics, politics of ideas, postmodernism, power, presence, promissory notes, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, race, radicalism, reductionism, relationships, religion, roles, scientism, secular, seduction, self-deception, sex appeal, sexuality, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, sociobiology, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, terror, terrorism, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, theism, theology, time, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
|
Tagged AAR, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", academic conferences, academic panels, American Academy of Religion, bad news, betrayal, betraying one's origins, Boston, Boston conventions, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, cultural absolutes, cultural appropriation, cultural borrowing, culture as the matrix, discomforts of flying, epiphany, expanding boundaries, expanding identity, globalism, God's character, hotel inconveniences, human experience, hybrid cultures, infidelity, inspiration, judgment calls, lost suitcase, loyalty to origins, minor disasters, multi-culturalism, personal choice and culture, personal integrity, philosophers, philosophy, politics of ideas, politics of religion, power relations, religious identity, risks to identity, risky choices, selling out, spiritual experience, the Divine dimension, the language of power, theologians, theological remedies, theology, Theology Without Walls, tradition, trial and error, TWW, TWW project, war by other means, what's at stake, whoring after strange gods
|
2 Comments
